The Moorish Science Temple of America

Ernest Allen Jr., “Identity and Destiny: The Formative Views of the Moorish Science Temple and the Nation of Islam” in Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad and John L. Esposito (eds.), Muslims on the Americanization Path? (1998), pp. 163-214. 

Patrick D. Bowen, “Abdul Hamid Suleiman and the Origins of the Moorish Science Temple”, Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion, 2/13 (2011), pp. 1-54

Emily Clark, “Noble Drew Ali’s ‘Clean and Pure Nation’: The Moorish Science Temple, Identity, and Healing”, Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, 16/3 (2013), pp. 31-51

Edward E. Curtis IV, “Debating the Origins of the Moorish Science Temple: Toward a New Cultural History” in  Edward E. Curtis IV and Danielle Brune Sigler (ed.s), The New Black Gods: Arthur Huff Fauset and the Study of African American Religions (2009)

Spencer Dew, “Juanita Mayo Richardson Bey: Editor, Educator, and Poetic Visionary of First-Generation Moorish Science,” Journal of Africana Religions, 2/2 (2014), pp. 184-210

Jacob Dorman, The Princess and the Prophet: The Secret History of Magic, Race, and Moorish Muslims in America (2020)

Arthur Huff Fauset, Black Gods of the Metropolis: Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North (1970)

Susan Nance, “Mystery of the Moorish Science Temple: Southern Blacks and American Alternative Spirituality in 1920s Chicago”, Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation, 12/2 (Summer 2002), pp. 123-166

Susan Nance, “Respectability and Representation: The Moorish Science Temple, Morocco, and Black Public Culture in 1920s Chicago”, American Quarterly, 54/4 (2002), pp. 623-659

Scott J. Varda, “Drew Ali and the Moorish Science Temple of America: A Minor Rhetoric of Black Nationalism”, Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 16/4 (Winter 2013), pp. 685-717